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Williams, John E

lawyer, legislator. He is attorney for the Gould system of railways at Little Rock, Ark., and has twice served as a member in the state senate of the Arkansas legislature.

Williams, John Fletcher

librarian, was born Sept. 25, 1834, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1867 he was elected secretary and librarian of the Minnesota Historical society of St. Paul, Minn.

Williams, John Joseph

Roman catholic archbishop, was born April 27, 1822, in Boston, Mass. The new sees of Springfield and Providence were created from his original diocese in 1870 and 1872, respectively, and in 1875 a new ecclesiastic province was established, embracing these dioceses and those of Portland and Burlington. Boston became the archepiscopal see, and he was made archbishop, receiving the pallium from the hands of Arcnbishop McCloskey. 1

Williams, John Mason

lawyer, jurist, was born June 24, 1780, in New Bedford, Mass. He became associate justice of the Massachusetts court of common pleas in 1821, and its chief justice in 1839- 44. In 1844-56 he was commissioner of insolvency. He was also author of a pamphlet entitled Nullification and Compromise. He died Dec. 28, 1868, in New Bedford, Mass.

Williams, John M. S

merchant, ship owner, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1818, in Richmond, Va.

He was a member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives in 1856, and of the senate in 1858. He was a presidential elector in 1868, and was elected to the forty-third congress. He died March 19, 1886, in Cambridge, Mass.

Williams, John Sharpe

lawyer, cotton planter, congressman, was born July 30, 1854, in Memphis, Tenn. He engaged in the practice of his profession and the varied pursuits of a cotton planter in Yazoo, Miss. He was elected from Mississippi to the fifty-third and fiftyfourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Williams, John Skelton

railroad president, was born July 6, 1865, in Powatan county, Va. Since 1895 he has been president of the Georgia and Alabama railroads, and is also president of numerous corporations at Richmond, Va.

Williams, Joseph Lanier

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1800 in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1837 to 1843, and was appointed an associate judge of the United States court for the territory of Dakota, residing at Yankton.

Williams, Lemuel

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1799 to 1805. He died in 1827.

Williams, Lewis

congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1786, in Surry county, N. C.

He entered the house of commons of his native state in 1813, and was re-elected in 1814. He was a representative in congress from 1815 to 1842, where for his many good qualities and his long service, he was known as the Father of the House.

He died Feb. 20, 1842, in Washington, D. C.

Williams, Mamie L

educator, was born Nov. 4, 1874, in Corinth, Miss. For six years she taught school in Mississippi, and has since taught several years in Tennessee. She graduated from the State Normal school of Mississippi, and the Rust university of Holly Springs; has attended summer normals in Texas, Tennessee, Illinois, Michigan, and Boston, and is one of the foremost educators of the south.

Williams, Milton Bryant

educator, clergyman, was born Aug. 24, 1869, in Ontario, Canada. He received his degree of A. B. from the Northwestern university of Evanston, Ill.; and took a postgraduate course in biblical interpretation in the university of Chicago. For several years he was engaged in educational work; has attained prominence as an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and now fills a pastorate in Aurora, Ill.